August 19, 2008
Minnesotan Bruce Laingen looks back on Iranian hostage crisisShare
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Gary Eichten - Host, Sara Meyer - Producer, Bruce Laingen - Interviewee, Greta Cunnigham - Contributor, Jimmy Carter - Speaker
Minnesota native L. Bruce Laingen was charge d'affaires of the American Embassy in Iran when radicals took over the building and held 52 Americans hostage from November 1979 to January 1981. Laingen is back in Minnesota to donate artifacts from that experience to the Minnesota Historical Society, and he joins Midday to talk about his experience during the hostage crisis.
L. Bruce Laingen is president of the American Academy of Diplomacy. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War II and in the U.S. Foreign Service from 1949 to 1987. From 1977 to 1979, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Malta.
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